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Prepress / Systems Admin December 1989 July 1994

I provided Digital Prepress services to Nintendo Power, and many in-house books, magazines, advertisements, and marketing. - My duties also included: equipment purchase, installation, networking, hardware and software troubleshooting, market research, interviewing and hiring staff, scheduling, budget planning, and contract negotiation. Approximately 2,580 4-color pp/year

I also developed an electronic mapping system for Nintendo games, now featured in almost all Nintendo publications. The old method involved taking pictures of the television screen, then gluing the pictures, one on top of the other to map a game. I worked extensively with Radius to develop a special version of the Radius TV that allowed a NES/ Super NES signal to be input directly into the computer, which allowed an "electronic" screen capture which were then composited in Photoshop. The difference is illustrated here.

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Magazine

Nintendo Power
Issues 10-61, Monthly

120 4-color pages, 1.5 million copies at peak
Scanning, layout, prepress, electronic mapping

Club Nintendo

European version of Nintendo Power

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Nintendo Player's Guides

NES Atlas Official Super NES Game Guide
Game Boy The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Mario Mania The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Mario Paint Top Secret Passwords
Super Metroid Street Fighter II Turbo
Super Mario All-Stars

140 4-color pages, 150,000 copies each
Scanning, layout, prepress, electronic mapping

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Tokuma Magical Adventure Series

Kiki's Delivery Service
My Neighbor Totoro
Laputa, Castle in the Sky
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 2

116 4-color pages, 60,000 copies each

Layout, prepress

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Stereograms

3-D Wonderland

56 4-color pages, 150,000 copies

Layout, prepress

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Tokuma RPG Series

Dragon Warrior IV

100 4-color pages, 50,000 copies

Prepress, electronic mapping

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Tokuma Shoten Annual Catalog

1991-1993

32 4-color pages, 25,000 copies

Scanning, layout, prepress

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Marketing materials

Posters, brochures, mailers, hand-outs, postcards, catalogs, marketing pieces, etc.

Variety of sizes, print runs

Scanning, layout, prepress

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After

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